Are you new to CAE? Have you heard the acronym CFD? Did you want to know more about CFD? Its use, process and how to do CFD? Being a CFD analyst did you ever want to try out different, more powerful and user friendly CFD software for your project, research or analysis? If these are some of the questions in your mind then getting introduced to STAR CCM+ is the Next Step in CFD for you!

The most general form of the lighting equation uses both the vertex position and a vector that is normal to the object’s surface at that position; this is called the normal vector. Ideally, these normal vectors are captured or computed with the original model data, but in practice there are many models that do not include normal vectors.

AutoCAD Electrical is a vertical application developed by Autodesk on the top of AutoCAD for electrical, electronics, and mechtronics industry. AutoCAD Electrical provides with more than 2,000 schematic symbols. You can access list of symbols from this link on autodesk server A simple, icon-menu-driven system for inserting electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and P&ID devices is provided, allowing user to quickly build standards-based control designs by simple pick and place.

Autodesk Inventor provides powerful API interface the access the model tessellation and visualization. This blog series attempt to explain how to use Inventor C++ API to get a triangulated geometry from Autodesk Inventor model for downward processing. Assembly document, part document and sheet bodies are covered as model geometry for tessellation. Tessellation data is stored along with feature information and BREP structure in CAD part and assembly file.

The article is about a popular model available in ANSYS FLUENT, the solar load model (SLM). Here we will try to understand the simple overview of SLM and also have a demo video of a test case created using for setting up the SLM. To understand its significance it would be interesting to understand the physics happening when we say solar loading.